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Dan Bloom

Brexit summed up devastatingly by BBC Newsnight reporter in sweary on-air remark

It's the day we were meant to leave the EU, and Britain is still in chaos.

1,009 days after the EU referendum, MPs Brexit: 7 fast facts as Theresa May makes desperate last stand on her deal of Theresa May's Brexit deal - despite it already being defeated twice.

Meanwhile Westminster has been neglecting vtal issues from school cuts to NHS woes and the crisis in social care.

In a nutshell, everyone's pretty fed up around here. And it's a mood senior BBC reporter Nick Watt summed up perfectly.

Newsnight's political editor dropped the F-bomb to describe the angst and despair in an eyebrow-raising appearance on the current affairs show.

He said he'd asked a Cabinet minister what was going on, only to get the reply: "F*** knows, I'm past caring, it's like the living dead in here."

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According to Mr Watt, the top Tory said half the Cabinet wants option X, the other half wants Y, only for the Prime Minister to pick option Z.

" Theresa May is the sole architect of this mess," the grim assessment continued.

"It is her inability to engage in the most basic human interactions that brought us here. Cabinet has totally broken down."

It came as Theresa May prepared to hold a third vote by MPs on her Brexit deal today - despite it being voted down twice before.

Today is the PM's last chance to pass her 585-page Withdrawal Agreement, agreed back in November, if she wants to lock in a short Brexit delay to May 22.

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Otherwise there will be a cliff-edge on April 12 where she must choose to crash out with no deal, revoke Article 50 or settle for a "long extension".

In a desperate bid to win Tory support, she promised to resign within weeks if MPs pass her deal.

Yet unlike the other two votes, today's will not be a "meaningful vote" after Mrs May dropped half of her deal - the Political Declaration on future trade - from the motion put before MPs.

This bid to win over wavering Labour MPs backfired as Jeremy Corbyn branded it a "blindfold Brexit" that he would not support.

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And Mrs May's DUP allies - along with a hard core of Tory Brexiteers - warned they would still not support her deal.

That leaves today's 2.30pm looking doomed to failure - and swinging the pendulum back to MPs, who will hold a second string of "indicative votes" on the way forward this Monday.

But there is one glimmer of hope for the Prime Minister today after Labour MPs Lisa Nandy and Gareth Snell offered her a way to get her deal through.

They tabled an amendment that would pass the withdrawal agreement - if MPs get a greater say over the future relationship with the EU.

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